To ask if 35 really is middle aged

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Colleague described a new worker who is around 35 as middle aged the other day. I was rather shocked I'm 45 and consider myself middle aged and 35 young.

In my family most folks shove off this mortal coil around age 75, so I think of life in thirds:
0-25 first third
26-50 middle third
51-75+ final third

I'm 41, I think mid point of life expectancy as well. So middle age from 40, sure. 35 would have seemed too young as most people live past 70 now...? I think?

I think if i hit 60 I'd say I was old but I have relatives in their 60s who would hate to be thought of as old. I just mean the numbers though.

I'm 35, I'm not middle aged.

When I'm with SiL I refer to myself as middle aged though because we're the same age and it really winds her up.

No it's not! I would consider middle aged to be roughly 40 to late 50s . I'm 49 so right in the middle.

I probably felt middle aged when I was 35. Now i am nearly 45 and definitely middle aged.
35 is a mere babe in arms!

Bloody hell, hope not!

Mind you, when I was a lot younger, I used to think 35 was really old. Now I don't. In fact I think 50 is young.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary middle age is between 45–65 "The period between early adulthood and old age, usually considered as the years from about 45 to 65."

I'm 35 and I consider myself to be in the middle of my life, so I am logically middle-aged. Feels like a lot of people are terrified of getting older and cling to the illusion that you're still biologically young at 50 though. You may feel that you are, but your cells know the truth. The damage is accruing.

I'd say that by definition middle-aged is not young or old.

I would say school-leaving plus ten years defines young, so up to about 28, let's round up to 30.

I'd say retirement age =65 is definitely old (because too old to work) so allow ten years off that =55.

So middle-aged is 30-55.

Or look at it another way, the middle third of life-expectancty. Google says 81 for UK life-expectancy, which gives between 27 and 54 as middle-age. Spookily close to my previous calculation.

Wherever you think middle-age start, ask yourself if you would call someone one year younger "young." If not, you are kidding yourself.

I'm 36 and I find my health has dramatically declined since I turned 34ish so for me, yes, I do feel middle aged. Unfortunately! I certainly don't have the flush of youth that I had in my teens and twenties.

50ish is middle aged

So you would describe a 49-year-old as a young man/women?

No way, fifty at least ! 😂

I am turning 35 in a few days and bollocks am I am about to go into middle age territory

Middle aged is 7 years older than whatever age I am so that's 55!!

Sadly 35 is middle aged according to the bible and Dante's inferno. We are allocated 3 score and 10 which equals 70 years old. So 35 is middle.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Dante Alighieri

pitilessyank I would only divide adult years in your equation, so 20 - 40, 40 - 60, 60+. You can't be middle aged at 26

But I have plenty of relatives who have lived to 90+, so I would probably be closer to 20- 45, 45- 70, 70+.

Good grief! I read that middle age now extends towards 65 which is good news for me....
I'd say middle age starts at 45-50.

I'm fifty and veer between middle aged and young. 35 is not middle aged.

In 2017, 45 is middle age, not before!

I have seen 25 year old mums looking middle-age, we all know the frumpy look, but on the other end of the spectrum, some 45 year old women looking amazingly young - not teens, but looking great. Age by itself means nothing (thank god)

Compare Kate Middleton and Princess Mary of Denmark, there's 10 years between them!

Your colleague must be much younger than 35 or approaching 35 and feeling despondent at the advancing years and being on the wrong side of 30.

Yes, it is. If you live to 90, say, then you are young from 0-30, middle from 30-60, and old from 60-90.
35 is a great age, but its not biologically young.
There's nothing wrong with being middle-aged, why would there be? For most people its the best time of their lives.

I thought this assumption came from the Bible as "three score years and ten" being the full life expectancy, meaning 35 was in fact, middle aged?

Middle aged is 10 years older than I am at any given age

Well, I would be surprised to live beyond 70. So I suppose 35 is middle-aged.

55 is certainly not middle-aged. I don't think anyone on either side of my family has ever come close to seeing 100, let alone 110.